A collection of fossil vertebrates from the upper valdarno (Central Italy) Calibrated in the end pliocene to span 220,000 years across the olduvai magnetochron

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 479-492

  Napoleone, Giovanni ^a   Azzaroli, Augusto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fossil Vertebrates; Late Villafranchian; Magnetochronology; Museum collections; Pleistocene; Upper Valdarno

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY; VERTEBRATE;

ITALY;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036865716     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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